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In Other Words: Next Tuesday’s Quote
2008-09-26 06:01:00 D eborah is hosting next Tuesday’s In Other Words, on her blog, Chocolate & Coffee Think and ponder on this quote and share about it on your blog on Tuesday. Then, visit Deborah’s blog on Tuesday and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. If God said that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, then the whale swallowed Jonah, and we do not need a scientist to measure the gullet of a whale. ~ A. W. Tozer ~ &-nbsp;
In Other Words: Pressing Forward
2008-09-16 06:35:00 “Still, accepting God’s existence is one thing; honoring his command is another matter entirely, especially if we’re required to go back when we’d rather go forward.” ~Liz Curtis Higgs from Slightly Bad Girls of the Bible~ The beauty of writing on these quotes each week is each woman’s interpretations, and we come from all different approaches. I’ve not read the book, and do not know the specifics of what the author was writing about. I am writing it from ”my” viewpoint, because I know for me, it’s something God has been working on my heart with. I’ve been required to go forward, not back as this author shared. This what God wants “me” to do - and God may have something else for you. Sometimes we do need to go back to work through it, and work it out for the future. I’ve shared a lot about my son who passed away almost four years ago . . . and though we go back often to share and bring awareness, I don...
In Other Words: Pressing Close to God
2008-09-09 06:01:00 “For at least when we express our anger to God, our wrestling keeps our skin pressing into His. God is still present. When we honestly expose our inflammation, express our soreness, we are still staking our commitment to our relationship with Him.” Ann Voscamp from her blog post, Even if He doesn’t: Learn to Lament A s a new mom, the first time I heard one of my little boys tell me he did not like me or even “I hate you” and run away into another room was so heart wrenching. So, I’d go seek them out, and we’d try to talk about why he was angry at me. It would usually end in apologies and both of us in tears. Even now, teen kids can kind of get into those moods, and it sure can get frustrating trying to figure out what is going on now, being gentle, and making things right. As parents, we want to keep our kids hearts. God is the same way, understanding many times before we do why we are angry, why we aren’t speaking to HIm, and why we...
In Other Words: Reach out and touch someone
2008-07-30 02:18:00 We can tend to get into such a routine, we do not notice those outside of our box. Our box may be the same pew we sit in each week at church. We talk to the same people each week. But we don’t notice the lonely widow who comes in each week, and leaves quietly, never talking to anyone. She might be the one in your church in outdated clothing, appearing to not care how she looks and seems unapproachable. It’s easier to keep our distance, just observing, maybe even whispering “did you see what she was wearing this week?”. Little do we know that how lonely she is. She might glance at the little kids, and we think, she turns away from them, because she mustn’t like kids. Instead, it’s because her heart aches for the grandchildren that live across the country. Maybe she needs one of our children to just add some spark in her life, sing her a song, or bring her brownies. I wonder if she’d come the following wee...
In Other Words: Tuesday’s New Quote
2008-07-25 06:38:00 A my will be hosting next Tuesday, on her blog, In Pursuit of Proverbs 31. Think about the quote she has chosen below and share about it on your blog on Tuesday. Go to Amy’s blog and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. The quote she has chosen is: “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat… We must find each other.” ~Mother Teresa~
In Other Words: Builders
2008-07-22 07:48:00 Afew days ago, I had this converation with my five year old daughter at the laundry line: Daughter: “Mama, when I am a mom, can I tell my kids what to do?” Me: “Yes honey.” slight pause . . . Daughter: “When I am a mama, I am going to let my kids have a popsicle whenever they want.” Me: “Really?” (not knowing what to say . . . and another longer pause.) Daughter: “Mama? . . . can I have a popsicle now?” Me (knowing I would win the meanest mom award of the day): “No honey, your room is still not cleaned up.” Daughter leaves with a long sigh. It didn’t work. But my husband and I sure got a chuckle out of it . . . one of those treasured little moments we tuck away in our hearts and will hopefully remember when she is a mama. (But then “I” will be the grandma and give her children popsicles whenever they want!) As moms we have a lot of building to do. I am in the p...
In Other Words: Tuesday’s Quote
2008-07-17 23:04:00 C helsey will be hosting next Tuesday, on her blog,“Joyfully Living For His Glory“. Think about the quote she has chosen below and share about it on your blog on Tuesday. Go to Chelsey’s blog and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. The quote she has chosen is: “We, as women, think of ourselves as mothers, teachers, nurses and so on, but God says that we are builders. We usually relegate this role to the men, but we are building with something far greater than brick and timber.” By Nancy Campbell, The Power of Motherhood: What the Bible Says About Mothers
In Other Words: Peer Pressure
2008-07-15 16:44:00 Peer pressure - it’s not just a kid thing. How often are we sucked into it, to please others, to be like others, to follow others ideals of what godliness is rather than what God wants us to do. As women we can easily fall into it, with what to wear or not wear, to wear make-up or not, to have our hair a certain length, to cook only wholesome all natural food (despite our husbands wanting porkchops on the grill), etc. Some of you may remember the Gentle Spirit Magazine from over ten years ago that captivated many women’s hearts and ideals to follow. It was easy to pour more over that magazine and follow a woman’s thoughts of her desires, rather than to follow God, and what disappointment it was when the failings and sins of the author became public. It was an awakening that any person can fail us -yet it can be so tempting to follow man rather than God. It’s not just the people we look up to, but our friends that walk close beside us or others wi...
In Other Words: Tuesday’s New Quote
2008-07-11 04:02:00 D enise will be hosting next Tuesday, on her blog,“Shorty Bear’s Place “. Think about the quote she has chosen below and share about it on your blog on Tuesday. Go to Denise’s blog and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. The quote she has chosen is: “When we are set free from the bondage of pleasing others, when we are free from currying others approval-then no one will be able to make us miserable or dissatisfied. And then, if we know we have pleased God, contentment will be our consolation. ~Kay Arthur-
In Other Words: Sharing Paths
2008-07-08 04:01:00 Quote by Henry T. Blackaby & Richard Blackaby from their devotional book, Experiencing God The one word question “WHY?” has escaped my thoughts more than I can count. Many of the why’s will not be answered until I reach heaven - and then, I doubt it will really matter. But some why’s seem a little more fulfilled, when we see how we can use our pain, to help others. A few weeks ago, it happened again, as we gasped out loud to read in the paper, that friends of ours, who are grandparents, lost their first and only grandchild. The grandfather is also our dentist. We saw the ultrasound pictures in his office, and the newborn pictures after his grandson was born. I would often run into his wife at the store or Good Will and was shown the newest item for her little grandson and see the delight in her face as she spoke of a smiling happy baby. How we wished the death notice we read was not their grandson, but tragically it was. He was only 12 w...
In Other Words: Tuesday’s Quote
2008-07-04 05:00:00 B onnie will be hosting next Tueday, on her blog,“Ink It Blog“. Think about the quote she has chosen below and share about it on your blog on Tuedsay. Go to Bonnie’s blog and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. The quote she has chosen is: “The Christian life is a pilgrimage. At times the road is difficult and we get lonely. Sometimes we may get discouraged and consider abandoning the journey. It is at such times that God will place a friend alongside us. One of God’s most precious gifts to us is friends who encourage us and lovingly challenge us to ‘keep going.’ “ By Henry T. Blackaby & Richard Blackaby from their devotional book, Experiencing God Also please update your buttons and bars In “Other” Words. The top box is what should be with each In Other Word’s post and the bar below can be placed on your blog as a particpant on one of your side pannels. THANK YOU!
In Other Words ~ His Plans
2008-07-01 04:14:00 This has been one of those “hang on to” verses through the ups and downs of life. But it became more real to me through a recent Bible study of Abraham. There’s so much I could share that touched me but re-visiting Abraham’s life, seeing the mistakes he made, and yet, seeing God stay with His covenant with him. God did indeed know the plans He had for him, and it was certainly to take care of him. And He did for us way back then too as we see the imprint of the coming of Jesus, His death on the cross, through Abraham. The picture of Abraham’s son, Isaac carrying the wood of the sacrifice up Mt. Moriah is an image of Jesus carrying wood, the cross on His back. The ram caught in the thicket was not the real sacrifice. It took place later. It was instead the Lamb of God, God’s son, not Abraham’s son. Yet Jesus know that His sacrifice would cost His life - and His sacrifice accomplished what no other kind of sacrifice could even come cl...
In Other Words: Tuesday’s Quote
2008-06-27 14:01:00 S usan will be hosting next Tueday’s , on her blog,“Forever His“. Think about it and share about it on your blog on Tuedsay. Go to Susan’s blog and leave the link to your blog and visit the other gals who have also written on it. The quote she has chosen is: “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out -plans to take care of you . . .” Jeremiah 29:11 (The Message) Also please update your buttons and bars In “Other” Words. The top box is what should be with each In Other Word’s post and the bar below can be placed on your blog as a particpant on one of your side pannels. THANK YOU!
In Other Words: Perseverance
2008-06-24 22:29:00 P erseverance - it’s a pretty big word - that takes a lot of work. For a preemie baby it may be learning how to nurse, and a persevering mother to keep on trying. For a toddler, it’s learning how to walk and a five year old learning how to tie his shoes. As we get older, it’s persevering through algebra, driving, marriage and parenthood. It’s persevering through daily struggles and major life alterations. For a dear family we know, it’s now persevering through much grief and pain after the loss of their 12 week old son/grandson from SIDS. They have much to persevere through as each day right now is a struggle. Their friends and family need to persevere to carry them along and continuing to pray for them. Perseverance and can be a long lonely walk through the valley of the shadow of death and can be much slower than a snail’s pace to the ark. It may be perseverance just to get up in the morning and face another day. As m...
In Other Words: Think On These Things
2008-06-10 00:10:00 Ican be one of those day dreamers - giving myself panic attacks thinking of the “what ifs”. It happened a few days ago. My husband is self-employed as a small engine repair mechanic. Several times he has breathed too much exhaust, giving himself carbon monoxide poisoning. He puts larger garden/lawn tractors on hoists, which he’s never had fall on him, yet, but I fear it. His days can be busy with with phone calls, sales reps visits, customers coming to drop off/pick up items and his runnings about with pick-ups and deliveries and getting parts. He will work very late at night in the shop on repairs. There’s been several times I’ve fallen asleep hours before him to wake-up and he’s still not in bed. That night, I woke up with a jolt - where was he? I was so stricken with fear, afraid to call him on the speaker, so I walked out there, fearing the worst, holding my breath as I peered around the door. He was fine, thankfull...
In Other Words: Following Jesus
2008-05-14 06:11:00 So He went to her, took her hand and helped her up. Mark 1:31a A s Scripture is read, don’t you often desire to see more of the picture . . . know more of the story? This is one of those instances. Take the time to read the full text, but here’s a little more: And immediately after they came out of the synagogue, they came into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was lying sick with a fever; and immediately they spoke to Jesus about her. And He came to her and raised her up, taking her by the hand, and the fever left her, and she waited on them. Mark 1:29-31 So Simon was married. I wonder what Simon’s mother-in-law was like. Was Simon’s wife so distraught about her mother? Had she been pleading with her husband to bring Jesus to their house? How long had the woman been sick? Did the men try to hurry Jesus along to the house - is this why it is said “immediately&l...
In Other Words: The Proverbs 31 Woman
2008-04-29 06:01:00 “”If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!’” “We smile as we read the wall plaque in the novelty store. But our smile quickly turns to a frown if truly “Mama ain’t happy.” This is because the wife and mother in a family often “sets the tone” in the home. The “tone” God wants her to set is one of joy, optimism, and a delight in the Lord and in her family. If your family were called upon to describe you, what would they say?” ~ by Martha Peace ~ “The Excellent Wife“ (excellent book - highly recommended!) U hhgggg! Should I really write on this one? Our home can be quite chaotic busy with ten kids, including teens and a baby that needs his diapers changed, homeschooling, the phone ringing for me, my kids AND my husband’s small engine repair business that interrupts meals, early in the morning, late at night and even Sundays (though we are CLOSED). I don’t know how m...
In Other Words: Friendships
2008-04-22 07:57:00 “To be intimate with others is to reveal our innermost selves to them, including our emotions, thoughts and desires. For such deep sharing of the soul and spirit to occur, people must respect and trust each other. … In a world controlled by sin, however, to choose to be intimate is to choose to be hurt. Yet Jesus calls us to this kind of intimacy with Him and with one another.” ~ Kenneth A. Schmidt ~ A couple of years ago, I pretty much gave up on friendships. I’ve done a lot of reading on grieving and relationships after the death of someone close, and one thing that seems to stand out the most, is friendships and relationships change. You’d think friends would reach out more, try to be closer, but instead, many will run - not just my friends - but it’s common in most relationships that go through a tragedy. It’s not necessarily the “friend’s” fault - people change - and the grieving person also changes - and may run ...
In Other Words: The Proverbs 31 Woman
2008-04-20 06:01:00 “”If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy!’” “We smile as we read the wall plaque in the novelty store. But our smile quickly turns to a frown if truly “Mama ain’t happy.” This is because the wife and mother in a family often “sets the tone” in the home. The “tone” God wants her to set is one of joy, optimism, and a delight in the Lord and in her family. If your family were called upon to describe you, what would they say?” ~ by Martha Peace ~ “The Excellent Wife“ (excellent book - highly recommended!) U hhgggg! Should I really write on this one? Our home can be quite chaotic busy with ten kids, including teens and a baby that needs his diapers changed, homeschooling, the phone ringing for me, my kids AND my husband’s small engine repair business that interrupts meals, early in the morning, late at night and even Sundays (though we are CLOSED). I don’t know how m...
In Other Words: Tell Me the Story of Jesus
2008-04-15 06:01:00 “One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works. ~by Joni Eareckson Tada ~ D on’t you love it when your teach a little one something about Jesus, and it clicks in their minds, and their eyes light up as though to say, “wow”! Does this happen to you as you read God’s Word and learn more about Him? I am in a Kay Arthur Bible study on the life of Abraham. We have a Bible study manual in which we do research throughout the week, and then we get together, go over it, and then watch a video which Kay Arthur speaks. Last time the study was on the Covenant God made with Abraham and how it was a picture of His covenant with us - His death on the cross. In the Old Testament when they made covenants, an animal was split in half, and those making the covenant ...
My Daughter Insists That I Post This? In Other Words? She? DO WANT!
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By: Los Cuatro Ojos
In Other Words ~ Following Jesus or Following Man?
2008-04-01 06:08:00 “We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it. ~by John Ortberg ~ T his is certainly a thought-provoking quote this week - and another one of those things that was just discussed in my life. I was just talking to an “old” college roommate friend of mine today, about how our lives have changed, especially in our walks with God. In college she was so quiet and reserved. She came from a very conservative, legalistic upbringing. I remember her struggling with a lot of it. In time, she learned what was God’s convictions on her heart - not “man’s” rules. It was as though she had to be stripped down, and find her own faith, and find what God wanted of her, making the standards of her life between her and God personally. Certainly, her husband, pastors and her parents had an influence, but it ultimately came down to where God wanted her. S...
In Other Words ~ Following Jesus or Following Man?
2008-04-01 04:08:00 “We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it. ~by John Ortberg ~ T his is certainly a thought-provoking quote this week - and another one of those things that was just discussed in my life. I was just talking to an “old” college roommate friend of mine today, about how our lives have changed, especially in our walks with God. In college she was so quiet and reserved. She came from a very conservative, legalistic upbringing. I remember her struggling with a lot of it. In time, she learned what was God’s convictions on her heart - not “man’s” rules. It was as though she had to be stripped down, and find her own faith, and find what God wanted of her, making the standards of her life between her and God personally. Certainly, her husband, pastors and her parents had an influence, but it ultimately came down to where God wanted her. S...
In Other Words: Pieces of my Life
2008-03-26 04:00:00 “Throughout the history of God’s people as given to us in the Bible, we see that life is a test. We have before us the option to trust God “no matter what,” or to walk away from Him. To walk away from God is to leave the fragments of our dreams in pieces on the floor, but to trust Him is to let God pick up the pieces and make us whole again. When we choose to let Him make us whole again, He will make our lives more beautiful than before ~What I Learned from God While Quilting~ by Ruth McHaney Danner & Cristine Bolley~ T his is being posted late on Tuesday, because I was cleaning my sewing/craft room today. (I did not even know what the quote was about until a short while ago.) I had too many piles and with now starting the Etsy store, I need to be more organized. I have been quilting since I was pregnant with my twin girls, over 16 years ago. I don’t do the fancy, elaborate type of quilting. I’ve done little hand quilting. ...
So in other words, no specific evidence for such a...
2008-03-19 03:24:00 So in other words, no specific evidence for such a definite statement.KH
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Freeze is futuristic in other words like Mr. India? - Neil Nitin Mukesh
2008-03-18 11:22:00 After garnering compliments for his debut performance in Johnny Gaddaar, Neil Nitin Mukesh has been signed by couple of big producers. One of projects he is doing is titled Freeze produced by Eros International, which will be directed by Jehangir Surti.Excited about his character in the film he says, ?I play an ambitious photographer who is rejected by the society. He then comes across a device which completely changes his life. Thus, struggling to make it big, avails a luring opportunity which changes his fate but later compels him to realize what exactly he wanted from life.? As far as the story of the film is concerned, he informs, ?Freeze (tentative) is futuristic in other words a science-fiction film based on the lines of Mr. India which also has huge amount of action in it.?Without divulging many details, the director of the film, Jehangir Surti says, ?The story is the USP of the film, something which has never been dealt before.? He goes on to add, ?It’s a romantic film...
In Other Words: Lists
2008-03-11 05:05:00 “We leave something incomplete everyday, whether it’s an area of housework, school, work, friendship, ministry ~ because we are finite.” Edith Schaeffer ~ The Hidden Art of Homemaking~ S o, how are you doing on your New’s Years Resolution list, your Bible reading list, the dreaded spring cleaning checklist, the homeschool catch-up corrections list, “Books to Read” list or maybe just your daily “To Do” list? Do you lay in bed in the morning, making mental notes of what you want to accomplish? And then at night do you do the same, going over those lists, recalling all the things that never were tackled, or possibly hardly anything on those lists? As I think of the lists I make, be it mental or written down, I wonder how often these are “my lists” and are not “God’s lists”. I wonder if it’s why God allows certain things to happen in our lives for Him to say, “Be still, and know I am God.&rdqu...
In Other Words - A Vision for my Children
2008-03-05 01:01:00 “ The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. “ ~ Helen Keller ~ I am going to take a different approach to this quote, as a homeschool mom, who has to teach my children about having a vision. I may not used that word, vision, with my children, but I have to encourage my children to keep going even with school subjects they may think are dumb or just want to give up on. One of my daughters detests math, of any kind. She wants to be a wife and mom, and cannot understand why she has to do this. So we have to encourage her, that she will need it with budgeting, going to the grocery store and figuring out what is the best price (if a sale is really a good deal), or helping her husband with household and/or business finances and/or even homeschooling her own children. With a long sigh, she continues, and accomplishes it. She may not have a vision for it now, but we do, and so we have to keep her eyes open to proceed. As moms we need to ...
In other words Im stupid
2008-02-28 16:57:00 This morning after folding laundry I sat down (while Taite napped) and checked my email...I opened up a comment someone decided to write.. and it said"Homeschooling? No offense, but your blog is a killer to the English language. The grammar and spelling are horrid. Have you ever considered there are differences in the meanings behind there, their, and they're? You can't use one for everything. Suppose and supposed, affect and effect, patient and patience, and I could go on and on. If you plan on teaching your kids, think about your own education and your ability first. As far as expecting a three year old to count to ten, say his entire alphabet, dress himself, etc. you're nuts. When you stop putting pressure on him, maybe he'll WANT to learn. Think about the homeschooling thing long and hard. If you can't handle ABC's without going insane, you're not going to be able to do math, science, history, and not to mention, spelling."by - IzzyI am going to reply to this as if I am a...
By: Fina Drea
In Other Words: Mama Praying
2008-02-19 06:01:00 “My Momma prayed, and momma cried, and momma laid awake at night. She would fight my battles while I slept away. Cause momma knew life is hard without somebody on your side. I don’t know how, but there is power in the way, The way my momma prayed.” Words & music by Jeremiah Olson of 40 Miles North Listen Here I imagine like many other moms, we probably more often replace the word ”prayed” with “worried”. How often do we worry, lying awake at night, worrying about the wayward child, the child out late at night who has yet to call home, or the just the plain “what ifs” of our children’s future lives. I am one who can easily get caught up worrying about my children’s lives - from the spouse they will marry; how they will support a family; to how am I going to continue homeschooling another 20 years? It’s almost like panic attacks when I begin worrying - and then, that still small voice says, &ldq...
In Other Words: The Heart of a Christian Woman
2008-02-12 06:01:00 “Why do our days seem so unimportant, filled not with romance and adventure but with duties and demands? We feel unseen, even by those who are closest to us. We feel unsought–that no one has the passion or the courage to pursue us, to get past our messiness to find the woman deep inside. And we feel uncertain–uncertain what it even means to be a woman; uncertain what it truly means to be feminine; uncertain if we are or will ever be…….And in all the exhortations we have missed the most important thing of all. We have missed the heart of a woman.” Quote taken from: “Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman’s Soul“ by John and Stasi Eldredge I used to sit on my husband’s newspaper. It was a jealousy thing. He went out to work everyday, had a silent ride in the car to and from work, and then would come home, lay down on the floor and read the paper. I’d send the little ones his way, climbing all over him, u...
In Other Words: A Patient God
2008-02-05 06:01:00 “”He [God] is very patient with us when we are trying to be patient with Him.” ~ Elisabeth Elliott ~ I am struggling with how to write on this quote. It might be that reading the sentences before and after this one, would make it clearer. I think the little word I am struggling with in this quote is “when“. God is patient with us when we aren’t patient with Him - when we wonder why He does not seem to be answering our prayers, or answering the way we want. God is patient with us when we are not patient with Him and ask Him why or blame Him for the things that happen in our lives. He is slow to anger. God is incredibly patient with our country, as babies are murdered every day, as we take Him out of our schools, and are “politically correct”. He is patient with waiting for sinners and for all to come to Him. The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any ...
In Other Words: Being a Woman
2008-01-30 03:48:00 “But remember, for all your adult life you’ll be a woman. And how you live your life as a woman, all by yourself before God, is what makes the real you. Nothing on the exterior can touch or change that precious inner sanctuary—your heart, his dwelling place—unless you let it. And God, who loves you very much, has tailor made all your outer life—your circumstances, your relationships—to pressure you into becoming that beautiful woman he’s planned for you to be.” ~ Anne Ortlund ~ this quote can be found in Disciplines Of The Beautiful Woman (p. 123) & The Gentle Ways of a Beautiful Woman: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Beauty (p. 96) I am late in posting for this week’s In Other Words. We have had the flu here for the last several days. You moms know how wearing this can be. I’ve got our baby sleeping in his bed next to me, and I am listening through the night for that cough - which follows with the throwing-up. I’m past exhausted, and j...
In Other Words: Diligently Deliberate
2008-01-22 06:01:00 “I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits for long, so very long, in vain.” ~A.W.Tozer~ ~ The third word stands out to me as I read this. DELIBERATELY. Do I DELIBERATELY long after God, seek Him, put Him first? Are the failures in my life, the ones in my children’s lives, because of my complacency - my lack of being deliberate? ~ This hits home right now with some things we are struggling with in our own family. Before our son died, we were a lot stricter on many things, from TV shows, music, games, etc. Things were nipped right away that the children might say that they shouldn...
In Other Words: Living Our Faith
2008-01-15 06:44:00 “A family without a commitment to the God of the Bible has no hope of stemming the tide of cultural onslaught. If we mix a little biblical truth, a little secular physchology, a little romance novel idology, and a little eastern mysticism, we will get a deadly mixture of lies. Unfortunately, this is what many Christian families do . . . If we are to experience multigeneraltional faithfulness we must come to a place where we throw off the shackles of our culture and live in the fullness that is found only in Christ. We must be people who live the Word in our homes.” by Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. ~ from his book, Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With the Lord I am not claiming authority or having it all together with this quote. As I shared in a previous post, this book Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With the Lordby Voddie T. Baucham, Jr. is quite a convicting, heart-pounding b...
In Other Words: A New Year
2008-01-08 06:02:00 (ooops! I thought this quote was for last week, but it was to be for this week - so here it is moved up here!) “In her hand she holds the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers. She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. When it snows, she has no fear for her household; for all of them are clothed in scarlet.” Proverbs 31: 19 - 21 (NIV) D o you have a new years resolution list? Or, are you too discouraged to write up a new one because you did even come close to meeting your goals last year? Is your list the same as God’s list for you? I personally don’t do well with the new years resolutions - not that I don’t have some things tucked away in my mind that I know God wants me to work on. But I can fail quicker than I can begin and I have found for me, to make short term goals - be it daily, weekly or monthly goals. As I read these verses above, I see how this woman is either home or close to home. She does...
I'm on a mission to get over you, in other words mission impossible.
2007-12-22 07:57:00 A man that was drinking all day goes into a bar. He demands a beer and is denied. Yet he keeps asking the bartender. Finally the bartender grabs him and throws him out. Another man is walking by and the man who was thrown out stops him. He says hey I'll bet you 100 dollars that I'm Jesus Christ. The man walking by laughs at him and says make it 500 dollars and you got yourself a bet. The man claiming to be Jesus says come with me into this bar and I'll prove it. So they walk in and sit down at the bar. Suddenly the bartender comes from the back of the bar and sees the man he threw out. Angrily the bartender looks toward the man he just threw out and says Jesus Christ I told you to stay out of here. The man walking by looks amazed and pays the man his 500 dollars.
In Other Words On the Horizon
2007-12-21 00:42:00 Hopeful Spirit hosts the weekly meme, In "other" Words, exploring a quote from Max Lucado, author of "It's Not About Me:" "Don't blame suffering the world on the anger of God. He's not mad; he didn't mess up. Follow our troubles to their headwaters, and you won't find any angry or befuddled God. But you will find a sovereign God. Your p6 Zoom(s)
In Other Words: God's Agenda vs Our Agenda
2007-11-27 06:28:00 "One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda...
In other words: The South OC market
2007-11-26 15:30:00 This blog has one overarching goal: To encourage as many homeowners, buyers and potential buyers (everyone) as possible to educate themselves as best they can about real estate in their area, since the purchase of a home will most likely be the biggest financial decision of their lives.This blog does not try to communicate any one particular point of view or philosophy, but instead tries to present what is happening locally through concrete data and examples in order to let people draw their own conclusions.In the interest of full disclosure, in case it wasn't fairly clear already: this blogger is generally bearish on real estate in OC in the short term and bullish in the long term. But that doesn't mean much; I don't profit whether the market gains or falls. I simply report what I see. Real estate can be a good investment at the right time and place. I don't believe we are there right now. I am optimistic that the day will be here once again - sooner, I hope, rather than later....
In Other Words: Growing Pains
2007-11-20 07:58:00 "The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life." ~ James L....
In Other Words:
2007-11-13 07:26:00 "Love is beautiful, but it is also terrible-- terrible in its determination to allow nothing blemished or unworthy to remain in the beloved." ~ Hannah Hurnard ~ author of Hinds' Feet on High Places T his week's quote comes from...
In Other Words - My Mosiac
2007-11-06 06:01:00 "In our lives the darkest times, the days that are bleak and black, add depth to every other experience. Like the dark bits of color in a mosaic, they add the contrast and shadows that give beauty to the whole,...
In Other Words: The WHOLE Word
2007-10-30 05:58:00 "The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole...
In Other Words: Emotional Purity
2007-10-23 06:37:00 "We women must realize how visual men are, and because of that we should wear modest clothes. Not because we don't have the right to wear what we want, but for the benefit of the spiritual life of our brothers...
Hosting In Other Words: Emotional Purity
2007-10-20 02:19:00 "We women must realize how visual men are, and because of that we should wear modest clothes. Not because we don't have the right to wear what we want, but for the benefit of the spiritual life of our brothers...
In other words
2007-10-19 12:57:00 For the past week, the money received by politicians was called cash gifts, cash allowance, goodwill measures, charity funds and bribe money. Which one is the correct term? Whatever label politicians assign to the ?gift-giving? in Malacaang, it must be emphasized that taxpayers? money was distributed under dubious circumstances. In our... [ This is a content summary only. Visit PinoyBlogoSphere.com for full links, other content, and more! ]
An Apology & Thank You
2007-10-17 07:08:00 My sweet sisters in Christ… I am so sorry that I have upset many of you when I chose the quote for IOW this week. I guess the Melanie’s first sentence really struck me…and I thought it would be nice to reflect on gentleness this week. I publicly apologize to Melanie at Proverbs 31 Devotionals that I ...
By: Sting My Heart
IOW ~ When Frustration Hits
2007-10-16 06:08:00 “Gentleness is part of being feminine - part of being a woman, and God made us distinctly different from men on purpose!” ~ Melanie Chitwood (Proverbs 31 Ministries) I have mentioned before that we are restructuring our accounting department. We used to be several different departments to take care of only parts of our store’s accounting needs. ...
By: Sting My Heart
In Other Words: Gentleness
2007-10-16 06:04:00 ?Gentleness is part of being feminine - part of being a woman, and God made us distinctly different from men on purpose!? ~ Melanie Chitwood ~ (Proverbs 31 Ministries) ~Ouch! This is one of those quotes that is not necessarily... |
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